Administrative Assistant

Rosita Alvarez-Croft, 201 Cory Hall, 643-8167, rosita@eecs

Mail

To send broadcast messages to the complete class, use ee241-class@cory.eecs
The class news-group can be reached at news:ucb.class.ee241

Course Description

This course aims to convey a knowledge of advanced concepts of circuit design for digital VLSI components in state of the art MOS technologies. Emphasis is on the circuit design, optimization, and layout of either very high speed, high density or low power circuits for use in applications such as micro-processors, signal and multimedia processors, memory and periphery. Special attention will devoted to the most important challenges facing digital circuit designers today and in the coming decade, being the impact of scaling, deep submicron effects, interconnect, signal integrity, power distribution and consumption, and timing.
This semester, special attention will be given to the following topics: design for deep-submicron CMOS, high-speed design styles, circuitry for digital radio, timing, arithmetic building blocks, and impact of interconnect. This will reflected in both the lectures and the preferred projects.

Course Links

·         Class Topics and Schedule

·       Lectures

·         Reading Material

·         Homework Assignments

·         Project Information

·         Tool Information

Comments and questions should be addressed to ee241@eecs.berkeley.edu